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No Man's Sky |OT2| Maths Effect
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SynthFetish
Member
Those dog sentinels drop them.
I occasionally get them from shooting down sentinel drones.
Also sometimes in the shop.
Edit:
Or was it the dogs?
OuterLimits
Member
Cool picture above btw.
So I decided to start over. Left the first planet and got the signal tower when scanning in space. I go to the planet and it turns out to be completely barren of life. It's half land, half water. So I find the tower and it points to the outpost that will have the hyperdrive.
I get in my ship and head towards the marker. Which happens to be under water. Wtf. Fortunately the icon wasn't far from land so I hop in the water. I'm not seeing any buildings here, but I decide to go to the marker anyway. When I reach it, I get a message saying objective complete, and I get the blueprint for the hyperdrive.
I guess it was just floating in the water or something. Lol. So odd. Last time I played an alien gave it to me.
Btw, blueprints for the multi tool seem to come in a more organized manner or I'm getting lucky. I have been getting the sigma ones and other more simple blueprints early instead of getting random theta ones at times.
So I decided to start over. Left the first planet and got the signal tower when scanning in space. I go to the planet and it turns out to be completely barren of life. It's half land, half water. So I find the tower and it points to the outpost that will have the hyperdrive.
I get in my ship and head towards the marker. Which happens to be under water. Wtf. Fortunately the icon wasn't far from land so I hop in the water. I'm not seeing any buildings here, but I decide to go to the marker anyway. When I reach it, I get a message saying objective complete, and I get the blueprint for the hyperdrive.
I guess it was just floating in the water or something. Lol. So odd. Last time I played an alien gave it to me.
Btw, blueprints for the multi tool seem to come in a more organized manner or I'm getting lucky. I have been getting the sigma ones and other more simple blueprints early instead of getting random theta ones at times.
BeautifulSee-through butterflies
When you exit the inventory (so touchpad) you can see that for a split second there's no HUD on screen. So basically, you just need to time it right. Not ideal, but at least it's something. Just takes a bit of practice. It's pretty much pressing touchpad then share (assuming you set it on easy screenshot mode of course) like, extremely quickly. Not quite at the same time, but not too far from it.
SolidusDave
Member
Sounds like the other way is easier though.
Go to pause menu (options) if you want to take a screenshot. Then press share and options buttons simultaneously. Also prevents the game from running in the background so you can time shots better.
Rivers need to flow. So they say.
SolidChamp
Banned
So I've been on an extended hiatus from the game; just taking the time to play other things because NMS is such a huge time sink. I've also been so worn out from all the drama it's made me not want to think about the game for a while.
But I gotta ask, for those playing on PS4, have the recent patches made things significantly better, slightly better, sort of the same, or worse? What version is it up to?
But I gotta ask, for those playing on PS4, have the recent patches made things significantly better, slightly better, sort of the same, or worse? What version is it up to?
Voxelized flowing rivers would probably break the game completely. lol
Those people don't realize this
R_thanatos
Member
PS4 is at version 1.07 .. several bug fixes all around were done in those patches.
Planet generation is a little bit faster with landmasses
0% fauna planets upload bug was fixed. Gek tower bug was fixed
RageWaffles
Member
Currently version 1.07. It's significantly better. My game went from crashing multiple times per session to not crashing at all. My last crash was several days ago; can't remember whether that was just before or just after the most recent patch.
SolidChamp
Banned
Cool stuff fellas, thanks a bunch.
Were the reports of the game "bricking consoles" verified? I heard about it but never found a source.
Were the reports of the game "bricking consoles" verified? I heard about it but never found a source.
Zombie James
Banned
SolidChamp
Banned
I thought as much.
Nostremitus
Member
How do you get in on the experimental branch? Steam says no Betas are available, is there some other way?
Edit: nevermind. I clicked the link and found the code to access it...
If you play while having breakfast, and warp to a blue star system with 3 Atlas Stones AND 87 pieces of chrysonite in your inventory, Sean Murray pops out for real out of your PS4 and pisses in your cereal bowl.
Just making fun of both the "let's make new shit up to trash the game" and "there must be a super secret way to do X" crowds. Anyway, a lot of stuff has been said about the game. A good chunk of it is complete BS.
Things are still a bit hit and miss, so there's definitely a variable here, in terms of performace (crashes and LOD issues, most notably).
Ya this patch suppose to fixed 90% of the crashes .
Yeah. They say Minecraft managed it but Minecraft was obviously a very different beast and on a much smaller scale.
Nostremitus
Member
To me fair, aren't Minecraft's rivers just voxels with scrolling textures? That would look like shit in No Man's Sky.
I think so but they can also move (read: spread) which no voxels in NMS can do.
Monkey_Plunkett
Member
Found a pretty cool planet that was like some weird 70's acid trip
No fauna at all here though which was disappointing.
Then it actually started raining acid lol
No fauna at all here though which was disappointing.
R_thanatos
Member
OuterLimits
Member
It seems you get the blueprints in a specific order now for the multitool at least. Restarted the game twice last night and got the upgrades in I believe the same order. I don't recall this being the case at release as I was getting a jumbled mess of blueprints.(and many that said I already owned it.)
I hope the extreme survival isn't broken. I want to get the platinum eventually.
I hope the extreme survival isn't broken. I want to get the platinum eventually.
So, as you may know, I'm currently trying to see if going to a specific point in the galaxy - any point - is actually possible (without using the waypoints systems), and how hard it is.
TheCochese gave me his system's "coordinates", and so I started my journey last night.
I fumbled a few times at the beginning, probably wasting half an hour or so in the end, trying to get my bearings right. About 1.5h in, I also realized that it would likely take me less time to go to the center, from where I was. Still, I'm determined to do this.
I'm obviously not quite there yet, but I've made good progress. I lost track of the precise count of warps I've made so far. It's well over 100 for sure. My count is at 243 now (was a bit over 100 before I started this madness).
Anyway, I've been taking some screens along the way, here are a few of them (fairly uncommon little fellas - at least for me so far)
Hmmm. Space Steaks.
That... thing was one the next planet.
And a couple planets later... Wtfiswrongwithyourfaces land.
TheCochese gave me his system's "coordinates", and so I started my journey last night.
I fumbled a few times at the beginning, probably wasting half an hour or so in the end, trying to get my bearings right. About 1.5h in, I also realized that it would likely take me less time to go to the center, from where I was. Still, I'm determined to do this.
I'm obviously not quite there yet, but I've made good progress. I lost track of the precise count of warps I've made so far. It's well over 100 for sure. My count is at 243 now (was a bit over 100 before I started this madness).
Anyway, I've been taking some screens along the way, here are a few of them (fairly uncommon little fellas - at least for me so far)
Hmmm. Space Steaks.
That... thing was one the next planet.
And a couple planets later... Wtfiswrongwithyourfaces land.
Technically no they don't. It is more or less updating voxel types and position. Would look silly in nms
New patch made pop-in made worse for me, unfortunately.
chrominance
Member
Enjoy your endless supply of Suspension Fluid.
This post makes me concerned about time time sink to achieve things in the game... can someone clarify for me? What are the average playtimes to do these things?
- Atlas Pass
- Reach Center
- anything else to note?
Huh, cool, how does that work in terms of one block becoming lots of others out into dynamic shapes (i.e. one 'block' creating a stream of 12 blocks going around corners and down slopes)? I don't know how voxel technology works but surely a dynamic stream of blocks can't just be one voxel?
Agreed re silliness.
Well, for my part, the Atlas Pass would probably have happened a lot sooner had I been more focused on it. I spent about 18 hours on my second planet, running around maxing out my suit slots and finding crashed ships to get the max ship slots. I'm also 99.99% sure I missed an earlier opportunity to get the Atlas Pass, which is why it took me so long. Fairly certain that with the ship I have I could probably reach the Center pretty quickly at this point.
Vindicator
Member
Haven't been to the center yet but Atlas Pass v2&3
you can get them by activating the orange-beam antennas with Bypass-Chips, select Colonial Outpost and get a marker to either a Manufacturing Facility or an Operations Center, the latter ones will eventually give you an Atlas Pass if you chose the right answer, I spent 10 chips each planet, got lvl 2&3 in like 1 hour, also lvl1 Pass Blueprint is given to you by Nada/Polo inside a Space Anomaly iirc
The Elite
BOSS
Nice!
First Atlas pass didn't take too long to get. Game guides you to warp drive early on, then suggests a path to Atlas stuff shortly after. At least it felt like that to me. If I had to guess the time it took me, I'd probably say 5-10 hours? Most of which was from just getting used to the game. Could be a lot more if you were more into the exploration though.
Once you get the Atlas pass though, it gets way easier (really minor spoilers for what you get from having v1 pass)
to get fuel to travel around with, and to get extra Exosuit item slots.
Center of the galaxy... I'm not there yet, but it seems like it'll take a while. I have a lvl1 warp upgrade, and I can only jump like 100ish ly closer to the center at a time. Jumping in a black hole gives me more distance, but I'm not quite sure how they work yet. Right now each is giving me ~1000 closer to center, and seem to be putting me close enough to reach another. So at the moment I'm getting about 1000 per hour (if I were hurrying, which I'm not). Started off with like 40k to center, at 36k now. I've heard the Lvl2 or lvl3 warp upgrade gets you like 1600 ly per jump.
I usually get dimensional matrix, outside of buying them, from destroying sentinel starships or deconstructing a crashed ship's upgrades.
EdwardTivrusky
Member
Well, that's broken my Pacifism playthrough
Got my 48 slot ship and was off to a new planet when i found a beacon which sent me to another crashed ship. A nice 48 slot MIG looking thing with the loop engine cowling so i swapped it, decided it was a "Keeper" and upgraded the Shields, Pulse Engine, Cannon and a Warp upgrade. V.Nice to finally have a ship that isn't a clunker.
Take off and head towards my next moon when i get the Pirate warning. Now, i remembered the dogfight tips this time and slammed on reverse thrusters and sure enough "pop pop pop pop pop" there's 5 Pirates in front of me in a tidy little line. I give 'em the beans with my newly upgraded Cannon and rekt 'em! \0/ Simples.
Land on the moon and it's my first Vortex Cubeworld, pick one up and yeah, 3 Stars so i end up shooting 3 Sentinels before the alarm deactivated just as i got to a cave... Full of Vortex Cubes awwwww yisssss! Totally worth it.
Got my 48 slot ship and was off to a new planet when i found a beacon which sent me to another crashed ship. A nice 48 slot MIG looking thing with the loop engine cowling so i swapped it, decided it was a "Keeper" and upgraded the Shields, Pulse Engine, Cannon and a Warp upgrade. V.Nice to finally have a ship that isn't a clunker.
Take off and head towards my next moon when i get the Pirate warning. Now, i remembered the dogfight tips this time and slammed on reverse thrusters and sure enough "pop pop pop pop pop" there's 5 Pirates in front of me in a tidy little line. I give 'em the beans with my newly upgraded Cannon and rekt 'em! \0/ Simples.
Land on the moon and it's my first Vortex Cubeworld, pick one up and yeah, 3 Stars so i end up shooting 3 Sentinels before the alarm deactivated just as i got to a cave... Full of Vortex Cubes awwwww yisssss! Totally worth it.
SolidChamp
Banned
Yeah, read about that. That sucks. Would hate to jump back in and have that be the case for me.
TheCochese
Banned
By the time you get to this system I may have maxed out my ship finally. Went from 24-32 since you started.
Plague Doctor
Member
Any news on a roadmap or even hints for content updates?
EdwardTivrusky
Member
Some are saying Base Building & Freighters are next up but i don't know when they're likely to release. HG are concentrating on stability and bug fixes before adding content.
SolidusDave
Member
Ok, I refined my system of naming planets and star systems a bit more. I'll post it here in case anyone ever stumbles into star systems discovered by SolidusDave and wants to know about the nomenclature. Or maybe someone wants to even adapt it. ...And mostly for me so that I can keep track of my path in the game
Listing all the variables is basically a spoiler so be aware of that.
Planets
Example: Shiva [C'E4f_D11mxEmP]
I use the brackets so that the identifier doesn't clash so much with the name. Also, [...] is for planets while {...} identifies a moon.
Shiva = Name of the planet
C = cold (H = hot, R = radiation, T = toxic, N = normal, M = mixed, happened once so far that a planet switched between too cold and too hot). Note that there are variations within (acidic and alkali rains = both toxic etc.)
' = liquid water present as lakes etc (" = oceans / large parts of the surface covered)
E = only added when it's an extreme environment (L = low atmosphere, i.e. you will see the stars and the sun at the same time with a high drain on life support). A lowercase e is used for extreme conditions (red text) that are not part of the extreme weather stat (e.g. constant extreme rain or wind).
4 = 0-9 scale for Flora (0 = none, note that the game will still add some plants as carbon sources...). This has to be guesstimated from what the game tells you (frequent, full, deficient etc.). 7/8/9 are usually thick forests.
f = fields, this is only added when most of the surface is covered in grass (I highlight this because it seems rather rare and makes them look lush and pretty).
_ = standard or low security Sentinel level (imo there is no practical difference) (- = more aggressive/active, / = hostile, . = none/passive/low)
D = Danger, added if there are a lot of attacking animals and in large numbers
11 = 0-15 scale for Fauna, it's the number of species you have to detect to 100% the planet.
m = mid-level frequency of animals appearing (r = rare, h = high). This has to be guesstimated based on what the game tells you about the planet (left out if no fauna at all).
x = if there is a very cool/big/unusual animal to see (highly subjective of course and obviously depends on if you have seen it while on there). When renaming that animal I add a [x] to its name btw.
Em = Emeril (Element code of the seemingly most abundant non-standard element on the planet, not listed are Fe, Zn, Ti, Hr, Pt, C, Th, Pu). Sometimes I will prefer to put the element that is available as crystals or not already on another planet in that system.
P = Albumen Pearl (G = Gravitino Ball, V = Vortex Cube, S = Sac Venom, A = AquaSphere)
I chose the symbols so that I don't have to go into the symbols part of the PS4 virtual keyboard and can write the code faster.
Star Systems
Example: First Contact [Y3AuChEmGPfx0_K]
First Contact = name of the star system
Y = Yellow F/G star systems, the color/temperature of the star (R = Red M/K star systems, G = Green E star systems, B = Blue O/B star systems)
3 = number of planets (becomes relevant when it's e.g. an Atlas system as then the game won't tell you the number of planets)
AuChEm = Element code of every most obvious to find non-standard element of each planet/moon.
GP = all items to find (G = Gravitino Ball, P = Albumen Pearl, V = Vortex Cube, S = Sac Venom, A = AquaSphere)
f = if at least one planet is covered in grassy fields
x = if one of the planets has a truly unusual animal on it (highly subjective I know)
0 = number of moons
_ = Atlas Station (. = Black Hole, - = Anomaly with our two friendly aliens). Not that Anomalies are player specific I think, so this is just for documentation.
K = Korvax controlled system (G = Gek, V = Vy'keen)
Actual planets!
Abydos [NL0_0Em]:
Crematoria [H1_9mA]:
Savannah [N'f8f.0Ch]:
Rockies [C'8_11rAlA]:
Erythraean [N"7f.14hxCh]:
Blood Moon {NL0.0Mu}:
P³² [R6.9hEmV]:
Mushroom Kingdom {N'9f_9hxCh}:
Cataclysm [N0_0Cu]:
Pacem [N"8f_0Au]:
London [N"e4f_14hAl]:
Königswasser {T'E6.12mxEmV}:
Listing all the variables is basically a spoiler so be aware of that.
Planets
Example: Shiva [C'E4f_D11mxEmP]
I use the brackets so that the identifier doesn't clash so much with the name. Also, [...] is for planets while {...} identifies a moon.
Shiva = Name of the planet
C = cold (H = hot, R = radiation, T = toxic, N = normal, M = mixed, happened once so far that a planet switched between too cold and too hot). Note that there are variations within (acidic and alkali rains = both toxic etc.)
' = liquid water present as lakes etc (" = oceans / large parts of the surface covered)
E = only added when it's an extreme environment (L = low atmosphere, i.e. you will see the stars and the sun at the same time with a high drain on life support). A lowercase e is used for extreme conditions (red text) that are not part of the extreme weather stat (e.g. constant extreme rain or wind).
4 = 0-9 scale for Flora (0 = none, note that the game will still add some plants as carbon sources...). This has to be guesstimated from what the game tells you (frequent, full, deficient etc.). 7/8/9 are usually thick forests.
f = fields, this is only added when most of the surface is covered in grass (I highlight this because it seems rather rare and makes them look lush and pretty).
_ = standard or low security Sentinel level (imo there is no practical difference) (- = more aggressive/active, / = hostile, . = none/passive/low)
D = Danger, added if there are a lot of attacking animals and in large numbers
11 = 0-15 scale for Fauna, it's the number of species you have to detect to 100% the planet.
m = mid-level frequency of animals appearing (r = rare, h = high). This has to be guesstimated based on what the game tells you about the planet (left out if no fauna at all).
x = if there is a very cool/big/unusual animal to see (highly subjective of course and obviously depends on if you have seen it while on there). When renaming that animal I add a [x] to its name btw.
Em = Emeril (Element code of the seemingly most abundant non-standard element on the planet, not listed are Fe, Zn, Ti, Hr, Pt, C, Th, Pu). Sometimes I will prefer to put the element that is available as crystals or not already on another planet in that system.
P = Albumen Pearl (G = Gravitino Ball, V = Vortex Cube, S = Sac Venom, A = AquaSphere)
I chose the symbols so that I don't have to go into the symbols part of the PS4 virtual keyboard and can write the code faster.
Star Systems
Example: First Contact [Y3AuChEmGPfx0_K]
First Contact = name of the star system
Y = Yellow F/G star systems, the color/temperature of the star (R = Red M/K star systems, G = Green E star systems, B = Blue O/B star systems)
3 = number of planets (becomes relevant when it's e.g. an Atlas system as then the game won't tell you the number of planets)
AuChEm = Element code of every most obvious to find non-standard element of each planet/moon.
GP = all items to find (G = Gravitino Ball, P = Albumen Pearl, V = Vortex Cube, S = Sac Venom, A = AquaSphere)
f = if at least one planet is covered in grassy fields
x = if one of the planets has a truly unusual animal on it (highly subjective I know)
0 = number of moons
_ = Atlas Station (. = Black Hole, - = Anomaly with our two friendly aliens). Not that Anomalies are player specific I think, so this is just for documentation.
K = Korvax controlled system (G = Gek, V = Vy'keen)
Actual planets!
Abydos [NL0_0Em]:
Located in the Stargate system [Y3CuEmP0.G]
Crematoria [H1_9mA]:
Located in the Polo system [G4AlEmIrA0-G]
Savannah [N'f8f.0Ch]:
Located in the Atlantica system [Y4AlAuCaChEm1f_K]
Rockies [C'8_11rAlA]:
Located in the Polo system [G4AlEmIrA0-G]
Erythraean [N"7f.14hxCh]:
Located in not yet named system.
Blood Moon {NL0.0Mu}:
Located in the Mortum system [Y5AlAuCuEmMu1fx_G]
P³² [R6.9hEmV]:
Located in the Plutus system [Y6AuChCuEmRaGPV0f_G]
Mushroom Kingdom {N'9f_9hxCh}:
Located in the Togqeniexi-Zuoka XIX system (uploaded by another player)
Cataclysm [N0_0Cu]:
Located in the Jade Cloud system [R2AlAuCuIr2fV]
Pacem [N"8f_0Au]:
Located in the Klondike system [B4AuNi0fK]
London [N"e4f_14hAl]:
Located in the Jade Cloud system [R2AlAuCuIr2fV]
Königswasser {T'E6.12mxEmV}:
Located in the Sentinel DMZ system [B3AlCaEmSV1xK]